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Issei the Gaming Pathfinder (High School DxD/The Gamer/Mythology/????)

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    • Level 0: How the Sekiryutei became a Gamer


    Issei Hyoudou was walking to Kuoh Academy from his house in a state of euphoria. This was his first day going to a school that was formerly an all-girls institution, and he was going to fulfil his dreams of being a Harem King, all because of his promise to the one who made his dream come to life in the first place. If the old man was incapable of getting freed soon, then Issei would be the one to fulfil the ambition, the true nature of—

    Welcome to the Game, Pathfinder​

    Issei stopped in mid-step, his euphoria replaced by confusion. The box that appeared in front of him in mid-air… how did it get there? Was he dreaming right at that moment? He pinched himself really hard… three times. "Ouch… this is legit," he said out loud. Seeing an arrow pointing to the right on the box, he hesitantly moved his right index finger to touch it.

    Would you like to view the tutorial? Y/N?​

    Issei pondered that in his head for a few seconds. 'Do I, or do I not?' he thought. 'On the one hand, I could get by with not seeing what this tutorial has to say. On the other hand, assuming I have to do something later that was easily explained in the middle of this tutorial, I'd probably be in deep shit for not knowing what to do.'

    Eventually, he decided…

    1. He'd view the tutorial
    2. He'd skip the tutorial


    P.S.: Depending on what choice you guys pick right off, you'll get an achievement before the Level (what I'm thematically calling the chapters) gets out. This is just a friendly heads up, everyone.
     
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    • [X] Skip it, tutorials are for other people.
     
    Okay, I'll give this thread until later tomorrow before I close the voting on the first story post, at the least. I'd make a reply right now, but that wouldn't be right, not in my book. Besides... I need to get my sleep sometime.
     
    [X] View the tutorial.

    I give people shit often enough for not reading the manual, no excuse to make the same mistkae.
     
    Oh, right, on a note that I forgot to mention sooner... just because there's four different slots for party members on the gDoc doesn't mean that only four people will be party members of Issei's parties regardless. Make of that what you will.
     
    Okay, so I managed to finish transcribing the different types of character sheets Issei and whoever else will be able to use, even if they're currently blank right now. I still need to determine who is in what party and so on... or you guys can vote on that in-thread later.

    ...*ahem* In any case, still need to do the Gamer-style statuses, so I'll be busy doing that when I get the chance. Besides, as it stands, there's no skills that are usable by you guys in terms of The Gamer just yet. Granted, if you choose the Tutorial, you might get some decent skills... but at what cost in-story?

    Also on my to-do list is make the items that are unique to this story, then I have to come up with creating unique skills eventually, plus start filling in the complete bestiary and completed quests. Of course, the last one is not applicable just yet, given the situation.
     
    You might want to change the Choices into bracket type like this:
    [] He'd view the tutorial
    [] He's skip the tutorial

    So people can be lazier and just type X into the bracket instead of deleting.

    [X] He'd view the tutorial.
     
    Ah, right, thanks for the advice, touhou ranfuku. Sadly, it's been a while since I actually did a quest where I was the Quest Master... so I'll keep that in mind starting with the next round of voting.

    Speaking of voting, I didn't mean to cut the voting short by a day, but I'm going to have to call this round of voting to a close. I'll have the next post of this chapter up in due time. Therefore, viewing the tutorial wins, guys.
     
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    • Eventually, he decided that he'd view the tutorial, especially since he didn't want to be in over his head. With a press of the "Yes" option, he started looking over the tutorial in full.

    Lesson Zero-Zero: The Most Important Details

    Before we get to the tutorial, please keep in mind that only you can see the effects of your power, at least for the time being. You can see other peoples' levels and stats as The Gamer, but anyone with special powers will only see your power in their perspective, so, if you were to talk with someone about your power, you'd have to be ready to do some serious explaining about game mechanics and how they fit into your power as a whole. That isn't to say that you don't have a separate power, it's just sleeping right now, biding its time before it has to wake up.    ​

    Issei blinked a few times, the confusion coming back to him. He had more than one power? How did he get these powers to begin with, then?

    Oh, before you do anything rash with your powers, keep in mind that your Gamer ability can and will be nerfed for a time if you do something incredibly stupid. The embodiment of Mother Earth gave you the Gamer ability for an incredibly good reason, so don't make her regret it, alright? As for how you got these powers, one you were born with, while the Gamer ability was gifted to you just today.​

    Issei nodded blankly at the screen in front of him. He didn't know how he could be born with an ability that he couldn't use just yet, but his being gifted a power by Mother Earth was just… well, odd. Why him? Why not someone who actually was a gaming nut and could figure out this sort of thing more easily than him?

    Meanwhile, a South Korean in his capital city sneezed, wondering who was talking about him.

    Back with Issei, he had just finished processing all he had read from Lesson Zero of the tutorial when he noticed another arrow on his screen in front of him. He pressed it to see what it did.

    Lesson Zero-One: Skills

    Skills as determined by your baseline ability are typically everyday actions that you do. To further elaborate on the use of skills as determined by your baseline Gamer ability, focus your attention on an object in front of you, and observe it.    ​

    Issei looked around for an object to observe, as per his instructions. Strangely enough, he didn't see anyone else around him on the road to school… what was that about?

    Eventually, he was about to give up when he remembered something. He could…

    [] Observe his backpack
    [] Observe a tree that was a few feet from his location


    Alright, to make sure you guys understand, the different observation targets have different effects on the story. Choose one, you'll be able to get Issei to class on time. Choose the other, you'll see Issei get chewed out by Sona.
     
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    • Okay... going to give this time to possibly gain more votes. I'd say about the end of the week at most?
     
    [X] Observe a tree that was a few feet from his location

    The backpack seems like it could be observed anytime easy, might as well check out the object that we are unlikely to ever pay attention to again instead. That way if it secretly has some treasure or something it it we will find it now.
     
    wayne82444 said:
    The backpack seems like it could be observed anytime easy, might as well check out the object that we are unlikely to ever pay attention to again instead. That way if it secretly has some treasure or something it it we will find it now.
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    Which likely would cost more time and Issei's later for school.
    Xamusel said:
    Okay... going to give this time to possibly gain more votes. I'd say about the end of the week at most?
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    I know this might sound rude but can you somehow make the update longer? Like 1000 words? There's so little action or plot advance in the update and it makes me feel like 'yeah this gonna take a long time until the characters do something's worthy to look at.'

    [X] Observe his backpack
     
    touhou ranfuku said:
    Which likely would cost more time and Issei's later for school.
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    I'm honestly grateful you considered that consequence. However, I'll be perfectly honest in that there's something in the area, which is not in the backpack (supposing that people still wish to choose the backpack at this time). However, it does not quite mean it's treasure, since it could easily mean a tutorial enemy (or quest... the kind you'd find in a video game).

    I know this might sound rude but can you somehow make the update longer? Like 1000 words? There's so little action or plot advance in the update and it makes me feel like 'yeah this gonna take a long time until the characters do something's worthy to look at.'
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    Nah, I know it's not rude, since you explained your reasoning for it. I'll do what I can to update longer, even if I can't quite guarantee it, since I have things I need to do sometimes.
     
    [X] Observe his backpack
     
    Okay... I have a winner so far, but I don't know whether or not the vote is closed this early (simply because I'd prefer to close the votes by a minimum of a 4 vote lead). If you guys think I should close the vote now and apply a different way of determining the result as a trial run, please tell me. Just note that I don't plan to take away votes, and that doing so would be detrimental to the system I have in mind, for your information.

    ...so, here's the planned method I have in mind. You guys vote on updates, I give it time to go through, I close the vote after a minimum of 24 hours, and I roll a die (with a modifier on it) to determine which result it goes to. The modifier would be based on the total number of voters since the previous update... which, in this case, is 4. The option with the most votes is given a better score to beat than the option(s) with less votes... with unvoted options having an impossible score.

    Sound good?



    [dice]3839[/dice]
    [dice]3840[/dice]

    EDIT: ...wait. How did both of them win? My math needs some work, doesn't it?

    Oh well, the backpack result will have to wait a while (though it won't be forgotten).
     
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    ...ouch. Okay, never mind that idea, then.

    ...now what do I do with the content that I had written up based on the idea that I had come up with in my previous post?
     
    I think it is an idea that can be good, but it would be more of a specialized voting kind of thing. For example, if we had 3 quests that Issei was going to do for sure, and the vote was for which to focus on then using votes as a dice modifier for the quests could work out well. On the other hand, if we are voting on what to do at all it kind of leaves people feeling like their vote doesn't really matter, because dice determine everything anyway.
     
    Is that... so? Well, that works better than how I initially wanted to do it, thankfully.

    So, just as clarification, I wrote almost 1k in words for the next update under the assumption that the tree would be the first to be Observed. Do you guys want me to...

    [] Rewrite the update to be about the backpack (will take more time than option 2)
    [] Stick with the tree as most of the content of the update by the end of this (is less voter compliant than option 1)
    [] Write-in
     
    [X] Rewrite the update to be about the backpack (will take more time than option 2)

    Given that I can't see any way that the tree won I don't see why you wrote about that first. Of course you could have Issei observe both if you wanted, and just have him observe the backpack first. That way what you wrote would still be used, you would just need to reorder it is all.
     
    [X] Rewrite the update to be about the backpack (will take more time than option 2)
     
    [X] Rewrite the update to be about the backpack (will take more time than option 2)
     
    Alright, you guys, before I fully rewrite the update, I need an opinion. When the backpack is done being observed, do you guys want to...

    [] Observe the tree
    [] Go straight to the school

    This will determine how much time I need to post the update this time around.

    *EDIT*: Scratch that. I'll rewrite the whole thing to be about the backpack only. Sorry for the inconvenience.
     
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